By Natalie Akooric A Hamilton toddler who was mistakenly injected with a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer when he was just six weeks old has developed a rare form of leukaemia. Chace Topperwien began chemotherapy for the M7 strand of acute myeloid leukaemia on his second birthday last month, but doctors cannot tell them whether […]
Parents delay vaccinations
By Rebecca Todd Canterbury parents are opting to get their daughters immunised against cervical cancer when they are older. A GP spokesman said that decision was the reason for Canterbury having the lowest Gardasil vaccination rate in the country for girls aged 12 to 14. Gardasil protects girls from a sexually transmitted infection, the human […]
By: Naomi Arnold, The Nelson Mail
By: Esther Taunton 28 October 2010 Social networking websites could be putting teenage girls at risk of contracting a deadly disease. New Plymouth GP Peter Catt says girls are choosing to believe what they read on the internet instead of the advice of medical practitioners when it comes to the Government-funded cervical cancer vaccine. […]
Assumptions get in the way of vaccine
By: Naomi Arnold, The Nelson Mail 1 October 2010 A vaccination programme to protect people from the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV) has been “bedevilled” by an assumption that getting girls vaccinated means they’re having sex, Nelson’s GP spokesman says. Gardasil, a vaccine that helps to prevent cervical, vaginal and vulval cancers and genital warts, […]
